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A study suggests ancient hot springs, like Yellowstone's, may have supported reactions crucial for the birth of life on our ...

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While asteroids will continue to strike, the impacts are less catastrophic than historical precedents... so far.

Curiosity has just finished the latest leg of its 12-year Mars mission and will now set out to explore miles of web-like ...

A single tree of either type represents a fairly small amount of carbon dioxide in the grand scheme of things.

A team of researchers led by Matthew Genge at Imperial College London confirmed that the asteroid has organic molecules; it confirmed that the samples actually have signs of life — but this life doesn ...

"We expected to see some greening, but I don't think we were expecting it on the scale that we reported here," researcher Tom ...

Skeleton Crew" will appeal most to younger viewers, but adults who remember Spielberg’s Amblin era may get swept up in it too ...

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